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Its interesting that you can and people have scanned the entire ipv4 space in minutes on a fast VPS but it would take you forever to find your first ipv6 addres
by SilverRed 6y ago
Its interesting that you can and people have scanned the entire ipv4 space in minutes on a fast VPS but it would take you forever to find your first ipv6 address that is even in use.
- lytfyre 6y agoShodan - a search tool for such things - had a pretty incredible approach to attacking this - they quietly provided most of the ipv6 hosts to pool.ntp.org, which is widely used as a linux default - and would queue a portscan up for any device that connected at startup for timesync. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/using-ipv6-with-linux-youve-likely-been-visited-by-shodan-and-other-scanners/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/using...
- bombcar 6y agoIngenious - and all the more reason to run NTP on the border router/firewall and have that be the only device that communicates with the outside world.